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Tyler
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When trying to connect to an online SharePoint document it gave me the option to use Anonymous, Windows or Organizational account; I chose Anonymous and got the following error: Unable to Connect - We encountered an error while trying to connect. Details: "Access to the resource is forbidden." When I tried to go back to connect using Organizational account credentials, it skips that option and goes straight to the above error. Any ideas?

 

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Hi Tykru,

In the Power Query editor window go to the File tab > Options & Settings > Data Source Settings > Edit Permissions > under Credentials click 'Edit'. Here you can make changes to the credentials settings.

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Thanks, Mynda, I can't believe I couldn't figure that out! Now that I'm able to login, I can only connect to the root level and can't drill down to the level I'd like without an access denied error. When I go into the query editor I don't see the file I'm looking for. Any suggestions on how to navigate to the subfolders and files I'm looking for?

 

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Sounds like the URL for the SharePoint file might be wrong.

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Perhaps it's a security issue I need to settle with my organization? The screenshot below shows that I'm able to connect but there many objects and I'm unsure which I can use to drill down on to get to the desire folder.

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Mynda,

I've found a workaround. If I open up the Excel file that's on SharePoint, go to File > copy the path, then can connect to From Web instead of SharePoint Online List, and paste in the file path, being sure to remove the the "?web=1" at the end, it connects directly to the workbook with no need to try and navigate through the SharePoint folder tree.

 

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Glad you found a workaround 🙂

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